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Land · KB Mashinostroyeniya (KBM) — Rusya 🇷🇺 · 2006
A 400–500 km range Russian tactical ballistic missile — an SRBM launched from a mobile launcher that defeats air defense by maneuvering in flight and releasing decoys, crushing fixed high-value targets with its ~700 kg warhead.
Specifications
- Class: Short-range ballistic missile (SRBM), road-mobile
- Range: 400–500 km (9M723; export 9M720: ~280 km)
- Speed: Mach 6–7 (terminal phase ~7,300 km/h)
- Warhead: 480–700 kg; HE-frag, cluster, FAE, penetrator, EMP or nuclear
- Accuracy (CEP): with optical guidance ~5–30 m; GLONASS ~50 m
- Maneuver: semi-ballistic low trajectory, terminal maneuvers up to 30 G
- Launcher (TEL): MZKT-7930 8x8 mobile; 2 missiles per vehicle
- Missile weight/length: ~3,800 kg / 7.3 m
- Variant: Iskander-K = 9M728/9M729 cruise missile (from same TEL)
Beats: Sabit komuta-kontrol merkezi ve hava ussu — ~700 kg basligiyla tek atista etkisiz birakir, Statik hava savunma mevzileri (Patriot/NASAMS bataryasi) — quasi-balistik manevra + sahte hedef ile radar kilidini kirarak asar, Muhimmat/yakit depolari ve kopru gibi yuksek-deger sabit hedefler — 50 m alti CEP isabetiyle vurur
Loses to: PAC-3 MSE (Patriot) — hit-to-kill onleyici terminal fazda balistik fuzeyi yakalar (Kinzhal'in Kiev'de Patriot ile dusurulmesi emsali), THAAD — yuksek-irtifa terminal onleme katmani manevra yapan basligi bile karsilamaya calisir, Aegis / SM-6 — deniz-tabanli BMD agi midcourse/terminal fazda izleyip onler
Defeats ordinary air defense with its quasi-ballistic maneuver in flight and the decoys it releases; used in Karabakh and Ukraine. Presented as the counterpart to Turkey's TAYFUN.
Related systems
Related systems (Land): SİPER, HİSAR-O+, HİSAR-A+, SUNGUR, KORKUT, Tayfun, GÜRZ, S-400 Triumf, Patriot (PAC-3), Bora
